Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

It’s a community effort , made possible by artists and designers from all across the globe who challenge their creative skills to cater for some good vibes on your screens. This is also why the themes of the wallpapers weren’t anyhow influenced by us but rather designed from scratch by the artists themselves. Submit a wallpaper!

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future. These are very limited, and rarely fit the designs we are building! On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. LCH and LAB are designed to give us access to the entire spectrum of human vision.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Music magazines were popular too. Andrew Clarke. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

CRM software helps you maintain information about and cultivate relationships with your customers and leads. For example, a customer visits a magazine subscription site that uses HubSpot CMS. If any changes need to be made to a site, marketers can do it using user-friendly drag-and-drop design tools.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

Icons are a fantastic way to help convey meaning and add some character to a design. Two versions available: Designers can use the Flagpack in Figma and Sketch, developers can install it directly within their code project (React, Vue, and Svelte are supported). Open-Source Flag Icons. Large preview ). A friendly little detail.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Software development, there was a young developer, your humble servant, discovering Linux for the first time. Designing and implementing these graphical interfaces takes a lot more work. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine. “ How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2022

Since the advent of the web, Engineers have always strived to provide solutions to the problems that arose during the early days of the web — and the security of software on the web is no exception. There is a lot of information about the best practices and awesome password-reset design patterns out there. Final Thoughts.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

You can see that in the workday I’ve marked the dark blue as ‘getting tasks done’, which represented product design for my case. Design and development. With tools like Trafft that have meeting scheduling software capabilities, we can easily set up our calendars to allow clients to book time with you directly. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. Drew McLellan: He’s a Senior Software Engineer for an agency called Echobind. But for me, I don’t have design sense. A little bit, but I’m not a designer by any means. Mike on Twitter. Weekly Update.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I vividly remember receiving a PC Magazine for my birthday with a trial of Dreamweaver. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. More after jump! Government.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Need to design something? It can be tempting to start with a computer-based tool, e.g. wireframing software like Balsamiq , or design tools like Photoshop or Figma. This process is recommended even if we aren’t designing something big or in the capacity of a designer. The Power Of Pen And Paper Sketching.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s because they are meant for user preferences, as mentioned here in the case of iOS and here in the Android documentation when talking about the Security library which is designed to provide wrappers to the SharedPreferences specifically to encrypt the data before storing it. Secure Storage On Mobile. Large preview ). In React Native.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Jump to table of contents ?. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you’re launching some software and need to know how to price it. Web scraping is the practice of extracting large amounts of web data through the use of software. Unless you’ve designed a truly innovative new product, the chances are that you can already find something at least similar on Amazon. Robert Sfichi.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

CSV importers should be designed — error messages and all — to make this a quick and painless experience for your users. As an example, let’s say that a MailChimp user wants to load as many contact details into the email marketing software as they want. For starters, this import modal is really well designed.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Developing software is becoming easier as frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular become the go-to solution for creating even the simplest applications. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Only then can you start building the layout on the client side. The Five Data-Loading Patterns You Need to Know. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Component-based design, enabled and enforced by modern JavaScript frameworks, does not only provide great developer experiences and project ergonomics when used in a smart way, but it can also offer advantages for accessibility. With best practices and guidelines on accessibility, assistive technology and inclusive design patterns.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Conway, Datamation magazine 1968. We’re back in 1968, a time when it was taken for granted that before building a system, it was necessary to design it. We’re back in 1968, a time when it was taken for granted that before building a system, it was necessary to design it. How do committees invent?

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

When people have an idea for a piece of software or an app, they tend to be pretty energized about getting it to market as quickly as possible. It’s exciting to create an app or piece of software no one’s ever imagined or built before. As software developers, we’re usually right there with them. Cache Merril.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It’s one thing to identify bottlenecks and implement optimizations for a specific website or a few similar websites, and quite another when dealing with many millions of websites, having such a wide variety of functionality, and an almost total freedom of design. Instead, we have to accommodate all of this variability, mostly on-demand.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out. The exponential proliferation of connected devices with varying software and technical capabilities has made it more and more difficult to cater web content to every single user. Why Use Client Hints?

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. The approach was influential in the design of the SQL Sentry performance dashboard, which presents waits flanked by queues (key resource metrics) to deliver a comprehensive view of server performance. of Total Wait Time.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. design tokens. design systems. responsive design and testing. responsive design and testing. Table of Contents. accessibility.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I used to design and develop WordPress themes. In this context, a theme is a JavaScript object that stores design system style values, scales, and/or design tokens. Further Reading On Smashing Magazine. Monetize Open-Source Software With Gatsby Functions And Stripe. Yes, Chakra UI also uses the notion of a “theme”.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve explored the concepts behind headless CMSes in detail here on Smashing Magazine, but let’s do a quick recap. The CMS itself is provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model which I like to term Content-as-as-Service (CaaS). Technical and sales support. Enterprise features. Infrastructure Integration. GraphQL support.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Large preview ) For context, I am currently working at a software development company called Q Agency based in Zagreb, Croatia. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. It’s more beneficial to customize it to fit the design.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. App Design. At this point, the design of our app is in place. Firebase is application development software from Google that enables us to develop iOS, Android, and web apps. Jump to table of contents ?.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

It means adopting common software development practices. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Subscribe and get “Smart Interface Design Checklists” — a free PDF deck with 150+ questions to ask yourself when designing and building almost anything.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers written by Matthew Talebi. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers written by Nataliya Sambir. But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Attainable DevOps. Weekly Update.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

They often fail to implement responsive design for different screen sizes and orientations, are unable to lock or make parts of a grid sticky, and make accessibility an afterthought. Responsive Design. This is further complicated by more intricate grid designs.

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